The complaint states: African-Americans disproportionately utilized early voting during the November 2008 and November 2012 general elections in North Carolina.
Agrawal et al. (2013) point out that friends and family disproportionately invest early in the funding cycle, generating a signal for later investors through accumulated capital.
The racial data provided to the legislators revealed that African Americans disproportionately used early voting in both 2008 and 2012.
A study on the "Cadillac tax" proposal conducted by the American Academy of Actuaries in January 2010 concluded that the proposal would disproportionately impact early retirees by a striking margin, not because their plans are more generous, but because they are actuarially more expensive to cover.
Field studies of overwintering mountain pine beetles have found that cold exposure disproportionately killed early (smaller) instars relative to later (larger) instars (Amman, 1973; Safranyik et al., 1974; Langor, 1989; Safranyik & Linton, 1998).
And in New York, because Mr. Obama focused on fielding full delegate slates in all 29 Congressional districts — a mission his supporters accomplished — his campaign had less time to register young people and blacks, who have voted for him disproportionately in earlier primaries.
As the dose per fraction increases, the probability of toxic effects in late-responding normal tissues increases disproportionately compared with early responding normal tissues, which are typically less sensitive to fractionation [4].
Research by political scientists at Dartmouth College and the University of Florida concluded that "Democratic, African American, Hispanic, younger, and first-time voters were disproportionately likely to vote early in 2008 and in particular on weekends, including the final Sunday of early voting".
Minorities — and African-Americans in particular — vote early in disproportionately higher numbers.
Opponents of the law say the move is part of a push to suppress likely Democratic voters, including African Americans and Latinos, who in 2008 turned out in record numbers and disproportionately took advantage of early and weekend voting.
